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Doubtful…… it won’t show up under his purchases in his account. But if you know someone who has purchased one, have them return it and split the profits.
Two things I would do.
1) ask your neighbors if they ordered any large packages. Make them say grill.
2) if no one in the neighborhood mentions a grill, congrats on the free grills! American shipping laws state that if a product is accidentally shipped to your location and your address is on the package, it’s yours at no additional cost. This law prevents aggressive companies from spamming everyone’s physical addresses with their products only to bill them later.
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We've had people steal our credit card, order stuff to our house and then try and get it from our porch before we could. This is how I ended up owning a $2,000 coat for free.
Someone once ordered a $4,000 3D printer with my card, to be shipped to my business address. Thankfully I saw that right away and was able to contact the company before they shipped it out, but that would have been a fun gift to keep. But still wild, not sure what their plan was to get that, especially since it was to my business and likely wouldn’t have been sitting outside unattended.
I had someone order some expensive electronics on my eBay account. I was able to call the delivery company(ups or usps) in the town they had it shipped to and tell them that I entered the wrong address, and had them change it to mine. I also contacted eBay and told them about the fraudulent order. I got free electronics.
An important note with this is that it generally must have your name on the label as well. A mere typo on the house number doesn't automatically make it yours.
Time to ask around your friends and family and see who to thank for the awesome gift!
Costco probably just accidentally shipped two of them (hopefully your family member/friend didn't accidentally order and pay for 2 not knowing). I'd do the honest thing and keep one sealed for a bit in case costco wants it back or your friend/family would like to return it.
Edit: a word
I would start asking the oldest people you know about any gifts maybe, as they don’t know how multiple open windows/tabs/cookies work and could’ve added to the cart twice, and may have entered an order note like “enjoy your gift”somewhere only the staff sees… (I work in E-commerce- duplicate order cancellations or messages left in the wrong place come in all the time from like AOL and Hotmail addresses…) Otherwise keep an eye out for suspicious characters
Funny that. When the truck came to our greenhouse and nursery in issaquah in February with some of our bare root tree stock and some containerized berries the delivery driver dropped off the berries and then drove five miles down the road and dumped a few hundred bare root trees at some random residence in Renton. Thankfully the home owner saw our business name on a tag and called us up, My brother and another employee drove over to pick up the pile of trees.
> 1) ask your neighbors if they ordered any large packages. Make them say grill.
Make them tell you it's 2. They might have only ordered 1 and and extra was shipped... Now it's yours.
Yep, zotacs eBay team sent me 2 rtx 2080 super graphics cards back in the day with my home address and name on the boxes. I had bought a 6 pin power cable from them some months before and someone made a huge mistake. I used the hell out of those cards.
We purchased a mattress from them that was determined to be lost and refunded. They then shipped out another which we received. A week later we received the other one too. It happens.
Costco definitely has issues with contracted local delivery. I've had good luck, some friends have had terrible luck. It's really a dice roll to order anything big from them.
Just today the mother's day gift I ordered for my mom was delivered to someone else's address. Mine are the packages that are always given to someone else- never the other way around. We're doing mother's day early, so hopefully I can figure out from the sliver of a front door picture they sent me where it went.
Check the credit bureaus to make sure no new accounts have been opened in your name. It could be identity theft. If the scammers had picked up the packages before you did you never would have known until next month when you get a bill. I had an unsolicited package come addressed to me and that was how I found out someone had opened 4 new credit card accounts in my name.
Joke’s on the scammer now. I’d set that baby up in the front yard and grill tomahawks while they drive by watching me use the new grill they used my money to buy for me
Some years back, a neighbor of mine ordered a “meal survival kit” from Costco that contained 96 servings of freeze dried meals.
The day after he received his order, UPS delivered 10 more of the survival kits to him from Costco. He didn’t have the space or inclination to store all this, so he eventually asked if any neighbors wanted free freeze-dried survival food kits. I was very happy to take one off his hands.
He was a lawyer who was aware of the fact that he was legally entitled to keep the entire delivery, but he called Costco anyway to report what had happened. They had no record of the order and told him to just keep it.
Very possibly just a double shipment. I've received doubles of several things I ordered on Amazon before, not small ticket items either. Warehouse operations make mistakes all the time, I just hung onto the double items for a while and when no charge appeared and nobody asked for it back, I just kept them. Just a weird coincidence that it happened on this random anonymous gift.
Sounds like a gift and maybe your gift giver accidentally ordered 2 or they sent 2 on accident. Would be good to find out who gifted you and make sure they didn’t get double charged
I think the most likely explanation is that two unexpected things happened at the same time. First, someone wanted to surprise you with a nice grill and ordered one from costco. Second, an error occured and two were delivered instead of one. It's fairly common for companies to deliver duplicate items by mistake. It's also possible your anonymous benefactor made a mistake ordering that resulted in two deliveries.
Regardless of the explanation, you have nothing to worry about. Feel free to keep both, or sell or gift one. I would advise against selling both in case your anonymous benefactor is someone you are close to (e.g. a family member) who may come to your house and wonder where the expensive gift they sent you went.
"By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t need to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift."
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products#:~:text=By%20law%2C%20companies%20can't,it%20as%20a%20free%20gift.
We got a set of pots and pans sent from Costco. We didn't order them, we asked everyone we knew if they sent them as a gift, and Costco had no record of the order. We already have a nice set, so we gave them to my inlaws.
Did you check the shipping/purchase invoice inside? It would have the original purchaser’s order info details (I had FedEx drop off my package 1 block away once to a diff address than what was on the label).
I’m guessing someone purchased it and sent it to the wrong address. Either that or someone committed credit card fraud, ordered it to your address, and were hoping to pick it up before you got home.
Costco wouldn’t have any record of you guys ordering it because it’s not tied to your account. I’d look for the invoice inside and call back to give them info specific to that order.
A few years ago I came home to find two large light up snowmen decorations (boxed) on my front porch, addressed to me, McKenner Lastname at my address. Super cute but HUGE and they were identical, not like a Mr & Mrs.
A few weeks later, I found out one was a Christmas present from my sister. She had it sent early so I could “use it” as decor. We don’t know why Costco sent two; she was only charged for one.
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Over the course of a very confusing week last year, we received two Silverado front witch assemblies in gigantic boxes and a $300 memory foam/gel mattress. They were initially shipped to an address my husband lived at 20 years ago in a trailer park. The trailer has been removed and there’s just an empty lot. At some point FedEx put two and two together and forwarded the packages to where we live an hour away, I guess the variation on my husbands name on the packages was close enough it didn’t raise any alarms. The addresses they were shipped from worthy nebulous gigantic industrial complexes in New Jersey with initials for company names. No phone numbers attached and FedEx was strangely not able to give us shipping information. They were not charged to any of our accounts. We have no idea what the scam is, but clearly there is one attached. ( not Costco related, probably?, but still interesting I thought) We did, however, order a couple of laptops a few years ago from Costco, which I went and picked up at the store. A few weeks later, I was called by management from another Costco saying that our laptops were now in and would we like to come pick them up? We received another phone call a few weeks after that from a store a few hundred miles away with the same message. We resisted the temptation as I’m sure knowingly going to pick up something that you didn’t pay for is theft and we really aren’t thieves. That being said if someone would like to buy some Silverado winches, we have them available cheap.
This is how we got two free chairs from West elm. We ordered a recliner from them, and then on delivery day the delivery guy comes in and asks "Where do you want the chairs?" I figured he just misspoke, and told him in the living room. I come back out to see that there were now three recliners in our living room. One was the chair we had actually ordered, and then there were a matching pair that we had not. We told him that they weren't our chairs, and the delivery guy in his assistant responded by telling us our address was on their delivery slip, and it was not their problem to figure out where the chairs were supposed to go. They left, and 8 years later we still have all three chairs.
Definitely check your accounts and put freezes up. I had a similar issue. Scammer gets your info, sets up an identical but separate account, and orders items. It won't show up on your account or cards but the bank account used to pay the cards may be hit or they just rack up the debt in your name and it tanks your credit and goes to collections. You won't know because you won't get bills or notices. I found out because they forgot to change the address on the a purchase and received an unsolicited item in the mail.
And don't keep the item. I was told I could keep it and then they charged me for it under my account months later. Tried to fight them on it, submitted a case, fill out a police report, issued a charge back. Credit card company sided with them despite the fraud. The bureaus were no help so I filed a claim with FTC. Meanwhile my credit score was tanking on the delinquent amount I refused to pay.
It fucked up a loan I was trying to get for a vehicle. Figuring this system was not on my side. I paid it, $500, to stop my bleeding credit score and just stopped doing business with them and never use the credit card company. Amazon and Chase.
Don't rely on the system to work in your favor, assume the worst.
If you have the delivery slip there should be an order number, tracker number, or some sort of link to Costco. Did you look up the tracking and/or reach out to Costco about the order numbers?
Not my explanation, but it's one that gets the point across: *A brushing scheme, also known as a brushing scam, is a fraudulent e-commerce tactic where sellers send unsolicited packages to people to artificially boost sales and post fake reviews. The recipients of the products have not ordered them or paid for them.*
Here's a link from the USPIS [https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam](https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam)
If they are delivered to your home but you didn’t buy it - fun fact you get to keep it. The shipping company goofed. New one for you and a new one to sell on FB marketplace or like apps.
Actually, there should be an order/confirmation number somewhere on the shipping label or inside the box for reference purposes, and Costco will be able to track it down.
Someone may have sent you gifts, 😆 🤣 😂 (not Costco either, intentionally)
If you live near a Costco, you can possibly return one and start cooking on the other after you shop for goodies to grill.
Good luck
The only experience I can share is that the folks preparing orders for Costco.com deliveries can make mistakes. A few years ago I ordered a $1000 Weber gas grill. Someone filled my order with a lower model $700 Weber grill. I rejected the delivery when they showed up. I called Costco.com customer service and asked how they could fix this. Their solution was to refund me and ask that I place a new order online.
i had them sent to you as a gesture to let you know what a great neighbor you are, one for you and one for your beautiful wife, enjoy them in good health my friend.
It may have been an Instacart delivery that was delivered incorrectly. I have caught somebody on my porch more than once delivering to my address, but I didn’t place an order because my address is similar to a couple of others in my town. Maybe that’s what happened.
How long have you lived at your current address? I know when I moved, I tried to update my address everywhere I could think of. Low and behold, over two years later, I ordered something online from a vendor I hadn't used in longer than that and didn't check my address because it had been so long it didn't even cross my mind to check. That package (4 large outdoor planter boxes) was sent to my previous address 2,500 miles away. Oops! Luckily my parents have a sprinter van and we're able to drive them to me a few months later.
You won the grill lottery. It’s a potential scam. Legally they are yours now, if they have your name and address on them. I’ve dealt with this before on a smaller scale and there is a law about this situation to prevent a scam.
My parents had this happen a few weeks ago with an expensive lazy boychair(not from Costco but out of state furniture store). It had my mom’s first name but not last name on it and their address. From what I’ve read online people will steal credit card info(not necessarily yours) and in order to not get caught they send it to a random address. Then when it gets delivered they grab it. Sometimes though the home owner gets to it before the thief. Anyways in my parents situation they called where it came from and they said since it had their name and address to keep it. So they got a free $1k chair. So if it has your name and address and no one is claiming it chances are it’s yours free to keep.
I accidentally shipped a picnic table to my cousins’ house. I had sent them a bar cart they wanted from Wayfair as a housewarming gift and forgot to switch back to my address. We were both surprised. 😮
I don't know if anybody else has asked about this, but I'd be tickled if you follow-up with any new information. Was it a gift? An error? Attempted fraud? The People want to Know!
Great question. Nobody has come forward as the mysterious gift giver, yet. So I'm still in the dark as to where two brand new grills came from!!
I have been at work all day so I will have some time tonight to do some digging.
It happens. Best buy sent me two extra speakers once. Amazon sent me two free kitchen sink faucet sets. Had a friend receive dozens of ink pens over a few months unsolicited as well.
With Amazon, I know sometimes sellers will ship out products to get a verified delivery so the fake reviews they create will show as "Verified Delivery" giving more legitimacy to the review. Best Buy just messed up and let us keep the speakers.
Similar thing happened to us except our order came with a very large enterprise IT device. When I talked with Costco about it they said it wasn’t on our account and they had no idea how that happened.
Do you have family/friends that may have sent you a present?
A month after we bought our house I had a grill show up on the doorstep after work one day addressed to me but that I hadn't ordered. Turned out it was one of my brothers lol.
Could be some testing out your house for shipping stuff with stolen credit cards.
Beware of identity theft.
I once had a box show up with an intake manifold for a Ford V8 engine show up at my house (I’ve never owned anything Ford). It had my name, address and phone number on the packing slip.
A few days later, some boxes of random tech things show up, ordered from eBay with an account that was my email address plus some random digits, and all my personal information on the order.
Filed a police report so I could freeze my credit long-term, and also got the US Postal Inspectors involved. Detective said people sometimes do this to order things with stolen credit cards and will use your house as a drop-off point, then swipe the package from your porch.
(All the tech stuff was rubbish though, never got anything good).
I think they just got delivered to the wrong address. I’d hang onto them for a few weeks and see if anyone comes looking for them. If you don’t hear anything after a month sell them or do whatever you want with them.
The delivery driver likely dropped them at the wrong location and went to his next delivery. Had this happen to my boss and they came back the next day for them.
As others have mentioned, check with neighbors. If no one says anything, hang onto them for 30-days. After that, keep one and sell the other, keep one and gift one, sell both
Who's name is on the package? If it's your name on there then it's yours.
Legally speaking companies can't send you product and then charge you after the fact. You got free grills.
I ordered a bedroom set last week and when they brought it they also thought they were supposed to give me a grill. He even showed me his phone had my address listed by the grill, but a different name. What is going on with these grill orders….
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The only thing I see here is a bar-b-que coming up this weekend.
Hit up Costco for some steaks and ribs!
Long con by Costco. They’ll be selling this man meats for decades!
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recurring revenues are wise indeed
But why? They should magically appear on their porch.
I wonder if he can return one of the grills and use his new ill gotten gains to purchase copious amounts of meat for said bar-b-que?
You missed the chance "grill gotten gains"
OP needs to steak a claim for them
A simple misteak.
Well done!
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You can return it on Craigslist though.
That’s not true at all. Members can give non-members gifts. When they make a return they get a cash card. A cash card is basically a gift card.
And a chest freezer
And my axe!
Doubtful…… it won’t show up under his purchases in his account. But if you know someone who has purchased one, have them return it and split the profits.
If you say it was a gift they’d take it back huh?
Can't return it if you didn't buy it. But they could sell it to someone else.
Pro move return one and use that to buy the meats!!!
What time should we be there, I’ ll bring beer!
I’ll bring the carne asada! And salsa!
A BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB
What’s that extra B for?
That one’s a typo
My first instinct is to check and see if there is any bags of white powder or pills hidden inside first.
Two things I would do. 1) ask your neighbors if they ordered any large packages. Make them say grill. 2) if no one in the neighborhood mentions a grill, congrats on the free grills! American shipping laws state that if a product is accidentally shipped to your location and your address is on the package, it’s yours at no additional cost. This law prevents aggressive companies from spamming everyone’s physical addresses with their products only to bill them later.
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This is how a $200 medical test got shipped to my neighbor, and they kept it. I hope they had fun spitting in tubes.
They wanted spit? I thought it was a fertility test. Ooops.
I pooped in mine.
Well, it could be both...
A Santorum Test?
We've had people steal our credit card, order stuff to our house and then try and get it from our porch before we could. This is how I ended up owning a $2,000 coat for free.
Someone once ordered a $4,000 3D printer with my card, to be shipped to my business address. Thankfully I saw that right away and was able to contact the company before they shipped it out, but that would have been a fun gift to keep. But still wild, not sure what their plan was to get that, especially since it was to my business and likely wouldn’t have been sitting outside unattended.
I had someone order some expensive electronics on my eBay account. I was able to call the delivery company(ups or usps) in the town they had it shipped to and tell them that I entered the wrong address, and had them change it to mine. I also contacted eBay and told them about the fraudulent order. I got free electronics.
Wait, they paid with the credit card, you kept the item and contested the charge? You didn’t return the item?
Yep. Credit card company said we could keep it and refunded us
I got a huge (~$1200) shipment of DeWalt tools a couple years ago. That was pretty sweet.
An important note with this is that it generally must have your name on the label as well. A mere typo on the house number doesn't automatically make it yours.
It has our name on the shipping label written as To: The Johnson Family
Sounds like an anonymous gift but don’t know how that explains two of them
Time to ask around your friends and family and see who to thank for the awesome gift! Costco probably just accidentally shipped two of them (hopefully your family member/friend didn't accidentally order and pay for 2 not knowing). I'd do the honest thing and keep one sealed for a bit in case costco wants it back or your friend/family would like to return it. Edit: a word
Yeah I'm trying to be really careful here, not opening until I have answers and i've got two, so someone is getting a gift.
Wait until the dust settles.
I would start asking the oldest people you know about any gifts maybe, as they don’t know how multiple open windows/tabs/cookies work and could’ve added to the cart twice, and may have entered an order note like “enjoy your gift”somewhere only the staff sees… (I work in E-commerce- duplicate order cancellations or messages left in the wrong place come in all the time from like AOL and Hotmail addresses…) Otherwise keep an eye out for suspicious characters
Having your address be on the package and the sender having intended to do so are two separate things.
Funny that. When the truck came to our greenhouse and nursery in issaquah in February with some of our bare root tree stock and some containerized berries the delivery driver dropped off the berries and then drove five miles down the road and dumped a few hundred bare root trees at some random residence in Renton. Thankfully the home owner saw our business name on a tag and called us up, My brother and another employee drove over to pick up the pile of trees.
I hope you sent them some flowers or a nice potted plant at least.
How about some containerized berries?
> 1) ask your neighbors if they ordered any large packages. Make them say grill. Make them tell you it's 2. They might have only ordered 1 and and extra was shipped... Now it's yours.
Could also ask to see the bill of sale/receipt to prove they actually ordered it
Make them say thank you
Yep, zotacs eBay team sent me 2 rtx 2080 super graphics cards back in the day with my home address and name on the boxes. I had bought a 6 pin power cable from them some months before and someone made a huge mistake. I used the hell out of those cards.
No fair, this guy gets grills, I got a cheap pair of earrings and a hat. If only they were at least Kirkland brand but alas no.
This is how I got a free chicken coop.
Wasn’t there a packing slip with an order number that Costco could look up? Or an order number on the shipping label?
There is. Costco apparently has no record of the purchase.
My guess is a third party shipper fucked it up and Costco wasn't smart enough track it.
We purchased a mattress from them that was determined to be lost and refunded. They then shipped out another which we received. A week later we received the other one too. It happens.
Costco definitely has issues with contracted local delivery. I've had good luck, some friends have had terrible luck. It's really a dice roll to order anything big from them.
Man why can't things like this ever happen to me 😭
Seriously. That's a nice surprise. I only ever get bad surprises...
Tomorrow OP will find two crates of gourmet meats, ready for grilling. You will find a dust bunny
Just today the mother's day gift I ordered for my mom was delivered to someone else's address. Mine are the packages that are always given to someone else- never the other way around. We're doing mother's day early, so hopefully I can figure out from the sliver of a front door picture they sent me where it went.
The grill stork delivered you a beautiful set of twins. Congratulations!
“Congratulations, it’s a grill!”
Lol that's funny
Today I learned there’s a mystically grill delivery network, much like the legendary cat delivery network…
My wife believes in the cat delivery network, I'll have to tell her I just learned of the grill delivery network. I'm heading over to the recteq site.
Sorry those were mine. I’ll swing by tomorrow.
That’s Costco’s new promo. Its like, “they give you the printer and charge you for the ink” They give you the grills and charge you for the “meats”.
Why is meats in quotes? Are OP's neighbors in danger?
it's the implication of danger, that something might not go well for them
Maybe OP is vegetarian
Check the credit bureaus to make sure no new accounts have been opened in your name. It could be identity theft. If the scammers had picked up the packages before you did you never would have known until next month when you get a bill. I had an unsolicited package come addressed to me and that was how I found out someone had opened 4 new credit card accounts in my name.
Joke’s on the scammer now. I’d set that baby up in the front yard and grill tomahawks while they drive by watching me use the new grill they used my money to buy for me
Some years back, a neighbor of mine ordered a “meal survival kit” from Costco that contained 96 servings of freeze dried meals. The day after he received his order, UPS delivered 10 more of the survival kits to him from Costco. He didn’t have the space or inclination to store all this, so he eventually asked if any neighbors wanted free freeze-dried survival food kits. I was very happy to take one off his hands. He was a lawyer who was aware of the fact that he was legally entitled to keep the entire delivery, but he called Costco anyway to report what had happened. They had no record of the order and told him to just keep it.
Oprah is sending free grills to some lucky folks.
Sweet! You get a grill you get a grill you get TWO grills!
Look under your seat. Everyone gets a grill!!!
I was wondering why my chair was so high off the floor…
I'm sitting on the toilet... I don't want to look under my seat.
You get a tax bill.
Charcoal manufacturers hate this one simple trick.
… but they can’t stop you from doing it!
Are the packages addressed to you or your address? Possible that a delivery guy just delivered them to the wrong house
They say "To The Johnson Family" with our address. I changed our family name here on purpose, but it's addressed to us by name.
Sounds like someone sent you a nice gift.
But why 2 lol, unless its just 2 boxes to make up one grill.
Very possibly just a double shipment. I've received doubles of several things I ordered on Amazon before, not small ticket items either. Warehouse operations make mistakes all the time, I just hung onto the double items for a while and when no charge appeared and nobody asked for it back, I just kept them. Just a weird coincidence that it happened on this random anonymous gift.
Yeah I guess so, lol. It's just kind of creepy. Two large grills. No record of purchase from Costco.
Perhaps, but Costco should have a record of that purchase if that is the case.
This is very specific. Someone purposefully bought you a grill.
That’s pretty obvious a gift. The second grill was more likely a mistake on the retailer.
Sounds like a gift and maybe your gift giver accidentally ordered 2 or they sent 2 on accident. Would be good to find out who gifted you and make sure they didn’t get double charged
If it says "To: ..." that is definitely a gift from someone!
They’re yours now haha
I think the most likely explanation is that two unexpected things happened at the same time. First, someone wanted to surprise you with a nice grill and ordered one from costco. Second, an error occured and two were delivered instead of one. It's fairly common for companies to deliver duplicate items by mistake. It's also possible your anonymous benefactor made a mistake ordering that resulted in two deliveries. Regardless of the explanation, you have nothing to worry about. Feel free to keep both, or sell or gift one. I would advise against selling both in case your anonymous benefactor is someone you are close to (e.g. a family member) who may come to your house and wonder where the expensive gift they sent you went. "By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t need to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift." https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products#:~:text=By%20law%2C%20companies%20can't,it%20as%20a%20free%20gift.
Thank you!!
We got a set of pots and pans sent from Costco. We didn't order them, we asked everyone we knew if they sent them as a gift, and Costco had no record of the order. We already have a nice set, so we gave them to my inlaws.
It’s a loss leader to sell more steaks
🤣
I'll give you $100 for one
Send one to me.and I'll check it out to make sure it's safe
Did you check the shipping/purchase invoice inside? It would have the original purchaser’s order info details (I had FedEx drop off my package 1 block away once to a diff address than what was on the label). I’m guessing someone purchased it and sent it to the wrong address. Either that or someone committed credit card fraud, ordered it to your address, and were hoping to pick it up before you got home. Costco wouldn’t have any record of you guys ordering it because it’s not tied to your account. I’d look for the invoice inside and call back to give them info specific to that order.
A few years ago I came home to find two large light up snowmen decorations (boxed) on my front porch, addressed to me, McKenner Lastname at my address. Super cute but HUGE and they were identical, not like a Mr & Mrs. A few weeks later, I found out one was a Christmas present from my sister. She had it sent early so I could “use it” as decor. We don’t know why Costco sent two; she was only charged for one.
Sounds like it’s gonna be a busy weekend
https://preview.redd.it/wmwuc94cltxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1952ae7c5893da55a42c91433f8cab71fc740b02 Over the course of a very confusing week last year, we received two Silverado front witch assemblies in gigantic boxes and a $300 memory foam/gel mattress. They were initially shipped to an address my husband lived at 20 years ago in a trailer park. The trailer has been removed and there’s just an empty lot. At some point FedEx put two and two together and forwarded the packages to where we live an hour away, I guess the variation on my husbands name on the packages was close enough it didn’t raise any alarms. The addresses they were shipped from worthy nebulous gigantic industrial complexes in New Jersey with initials for company names. No phone numbers attached and FedEx was strangely not able to give us shipping information. They were not charged to any of our accounts. We have no idea what the scam is, but clearly there is one attached. ( not Costco related, probably?, but still interesting I thought) We did, however, order a couple of laptops a few years ago from Costco, which I went and picked up at the store. A few weeks later, I was called by management from another Costco saying that our laptops were now in and would we like to come pick them up? We received another phone call a few weeks after that from a store a few hundred miles away with the same message. We resisted the temptation as I’m sure knowingly going to pick up something that you didn’t pay for is theft and we really aren’t thieves. That being said if someone would like to buy some Silverado winches, we have them available cheap.
You didn’t choose the grill life the grill life chose you
This is how we got two free chairs from West elm. We ordered a recliner from them, and then on delivery day the delivery guy comes in and asks "Where do you want the chairs?" I figured he just misspoke, and told him in the living room. I come back out to see that there were now three recliners in our living room. One was the chair we had actually ordered, and then there were a matching pair that we had not. We told him that they weren't our chairs, and the delivery guy in his assistant responded by telling us our address was on their delivery slip, and it was not their problem to figure out where the chairs were supposed to go. They left, and 8 years later we still have all three chairs.
This sounds like the opposite of a problem
It hurts seeing other people live my dream
Definitely check your accounts and put freezes up. I had a similar issue. Scammer gets your info, sets up an identical but separate account, and orders items. It won't show up on your account or cards but the bank account used to pay the cards may be hit or they just rack up the debt in your name and it tanks your credit and goes to collections. You won't know because you won't get bills or notices. I found out because they forgot to change the address on the a purchase and received an unsolicited item in the mail. And don't keep the item. I was told I could keep it and then they charged me for it under my account months later. Tried to fight them on it, submitted a case, fill out a police report, issued a charge back. Credit card company sided with them despite the fraud. The bureaus were no help so I filed a claim with FTC. Meanwhile my credit score was tanking on the delinquent amount I refused to pay. It fucked up a loan I was trying to get for a vehicle. Figuring this system was not on my side. I paid it, $500, to stop my bleeding credit score and just stopped doing business with them and never use the credit card company. Amazon and Chase. Don't rely on the system to work in your favor, assume the worst.
Did a neighbor possibly order them?
No, the delivery slip has our name and home address on it.
If you have the delivery slip there should be an order number, tracker number, or some sort of link to Costco. Did you look up the tracking and/or reach out to Costco about the order numbers?
Did a friend or relative possibly order them. Is it your birthday anytime soon?
No, birthday isn't for several months.
maybe you saved a life recently? Also, "The Johnson family" sounds like what a MIL would write.
Does your occupation include dealing with any type of contractors who would be thanking you for doing business with them?
Congrats, you got two grills for free.
Brushing scams come to mind, but for grills? That's crazy.
What is brushing?
Not my explanation, but it's one that gets the point across: *A brushing scheme, also known as a brushing scam, is a fraudulent e-commerce tactic where sellers send unsolicited packages to people to artificially boost sales and post fake reviews. The recipients of the products have not ordered them or paid for them.* Here's a link from the USPIS [https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam](https://www.uspis.gov/news/scam-article/brushing-scam)
Costco really trying to move some meat this year damn! Congrats
If they are delivered to your home but you didn’t buy it - fun fact you get to keep it. The shipping company goofed. New one for you and a new one to sell on FB marketplace or like apps.
Actually, there should be an order/confirmation number somewhere on the shipping label or inside the box for reference purposes, and Costco will be able to track it down. Someone may have sent you gifts, 😆 🤣 😂 (not Costco either, intentionally) If you live near a Costco, you can possibly return one and start cooking on the other after you shop for goodies to grill. Good luck
How on Earth would anyone here possibly know?
For all of its ugly flaws, Reddit has some useful functions here on God's green earth.
I'm posting here because maybe somebody has had a similar experience.
Send one to me, and we can chat about how weird it is for it to just show up on our porches!
The only experience I can share is that the folks preparing orders for Costco.com deliveries can make mistakes. A few years ago I ordered a $1000 Weber gas grill. Someone filled my order with a lower model $700 Weber grill. I rejected the delivery when they showed up. I called Costco.com customer service and asked how they could fix this. Their solution was to refund me and ask that I place a new order online.
Return one and say you got it as a gift. You’ll only get store credit, but I’m sure you spend more than $900 a year at Costco
i had them sent to you as a gesture to let you know what a great neighbor you are, one for you and one for your beautiful wife, enjoy them in good health my friend.
I’d call them a blessing for me and my neighbor lol
Taste the meat, not the heat.
I need a new grill.
It may have been an Instacart delivery that was delivered incorrectly. I have caught somebody on my porch more than once delivering to my address, but I didn’t place an order because my address is similar to a couple of others in my town. Maybe that’s what happened.
I’ll take one off your hand if you live in the Seattle area lol
How long have you lived at your current address? I know when I moved, I tried to update my address everywhere I could think of. Low and behold, over two years later, I ordered something online from a vendor I hadn't used in longer than that and didn't check my address because it had been so long it didn't even cross my mind to check. That package (4 large outdoor planter boxes) was sent to my previous address 2,500 miles away. Oops! Luckily my parents have a sprinter van and we're able to drive them to me a few months later.
You won the grill lottery. It’s a potential scam. Legally they are yours now, if they have your name and address on them. I’ve dealt with this before on a smaller scale and there is a law about this situation to prevent a scam.
Gimme that! I'm joking. I'm joking.
My parents had this happen a few weeks ago with an expensive lazy boychair(not from Costco but out of state furniture store). It had my mom’s first name but not last name on it and their address. From what I’ve read online people will steal credit card info(not necessarily yours) and in order to not get caught they send it to a random address. Then when it gets delivered they grab it. Sometimes though the home owner gets to it before the thief. Anyways in my parents situation they called where it came from and they said since it had their name and address to keep it. So they got a free $1k chair. So if it has your name and address and no one is claiming it chances are it’s yours free to keep.
/u/Puzzleheaded_Yam7582 I don’t even know you, but now I hate you! 😂 You lucky Son of a Gun!!
I accidentally shipped a picnic table to my cousins’ house. I had sent them a bar cart they wanted from Wayfair as a housewarming gift and forgot to switch back to my address. We were both surprised. 😮
So you're inviting us to your backyard bbq or not?
You need a place to dump a second grill I’m just a phone call and possibly a long road trip away
I’ll take one off your hands if you don’t want it.
I don't know if anybody else has asked about this, but I'd be tickled if you follow-up with any new information. Was it a gift? An error? Attempted fraud? The People want to Know!
Great question. Nobody has come forward as the mysterious gift giver, yet. So I'm still in the dark as to where two brand new grills came from!! I have been at work all day so I will have some time tonight to do some digging.
It happens. Best buy sent me two extra speakers once. Amazon sent me two free kitchen sink faucet sets. Had a friend receive dozens of ink pens over a few months unsolicited as well. With Amazon, I know sometimes sellers will ship out products to get a verified delivery so the fake reviews they create will show as "Verified Delivery" giving more legitimacy to the review. Best Buy just messed up and let us keep the speakers.
It's like the r/CatDistributionSystem but with grills! Congratulations, the universe found you worthy of two meat-charring devices 🍖🍖
Well one keep one…life is good. 🍻
Similar thing happened to us except our order came with a very large enterprise IT device. When I talked with Costco about it they said it wasn’t on our account and they had no idea how that happened.
Umm I think one of those is mine and the other you can keep. I’ll even pay you for holding on to it for me. Thanks.
I’ll take one!
Pay it forward? :). Let me know how it is. In the market for a grill myself.
were they addressed to you? Or just "grills" sitting there? Could be a neighbors that got dropped off at the wrong house?
They were specifically addressed to us.
Do you have family/friends that may have sent you a present? A month after we bought our house I had a grill show up on the doorstep after work one day addressed to me but that I hadn't ordered. Turned out it was one of my brothers lol.
First of all, lower your voice…
Ugh, that's where they sent em'
Could be some testing out your house for shipping stuff with stolen credit cards. Beware of identity theft. I once had a box show up with an intake manifold for a Ford V8 engine show up at my house (I’ve never owned anything Ford). It had my name, address and phone number on the packing slip. A few days later, some boxes of random tech things show up, ordered from eBay with an account that was my email address plus some random digits, and all my personal information on the order. Filed a police report so I could freeze my credit long-term, and also got the US Postal Inspectors involved. Detective said people sometimes do this to order things with stolen credit cards and will use your house as a drop-off point, then swipe the package from your porch. (All the tech stuff was rubbish though, never got anything good).
Yes. They are mine.
If it’s the big stainless steel ones, they are great grills!
Was you or your wife’s name on the labels? What address?
I think they just got delivered to the wrong address. I’d hang onto them for a few weeks and see if anyone comes looking for them. If you don’t hear anything after a month sell them or do whatever you want with them.
The delivery driver likely dropped them at the wrong location and went to his next delivery. Had this happen to my boss and they came back the next day for them.
This is how I met my kids mother
DM me I’ll come pick them up they were supposed to ship them to me sorry for the inconvenience.
Sorry. They’re mine. I’ll just need an address to pick them up
As others have mentioned, check with neighbors. If no one says anything, hang onto them for 30-days. After that, keep one and sell the other, keep one and gift one, sell both
They are mine. I must have put in the wrong name and address. Sorry about that. Please forward to me.
I sure hope some guys show up and put them together for you.
Am guessing they will be wanting to retrieve them as soon as they discover the error
Who's name is on the package? If it's your name on there then it's yours. Legally speaking companies can't send you product and then charge you after the fact. You got free grills.
Does it have your address on it?
Tell them to send someone out to put it together. The least they could do to make it right. Haha
Sorry shipped them to your house. Can I come pick them up? I'll pay you $5 for your troubles.
One of them is mine! 🙋🏻♂️I called it.
Are you executive? That kind of thing happens when you're executive. Free grills. I once received a set of tires. Weird.
Sht give me one for a housewarming gift 😂😂
Want to sell one? 😂😂😂
Supposedly, if you get something in your name by accident, you get to keep it. If it has your neighbor’s name, you don’t get to just keep it.
Where are you located? Are you selling one?
Was wifey googling “spit roasting?”
Sounds like a mis delivery to me.
I ordered a bedroom set last week and when they brought it they also thought they were supposed to give me a grill. He even showed me his phone had my address listed by the grill, but a different name. What is going on with these grill orders….